How did medieval society deal with private justice, with
grudges, and with violent emotions? This ground-breaking reader
collects for the first time a number of unpublished or
difficult-to-find texts that address violence and emotion in the
Middle Ages.
The sources collected here illustrate the power and reach of the
language of vengeance in medieval European society. They span the
early, high, and later middle ages, and capture a range of
perspectives including legal sources, learned commentaries,
narratives, and documents of practice. Though social elites
necessarily figure prominently in all medieval sources, sources
concerning relatively low-status individuals and sources pertaining
to women are included. The sources range from saints' lives that
illustrate the idea of vengeance to later medieval court records
concerning vengeful practices. A secondary goal of the collection
is to illustrate the prominence of mechanisms for peacemaking in
medieval European society.
The introduction traces recent scholarly developments in the
study of vengeance and discusses the significance of these concepts
for medieval political and social history.
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